problem adding new drive...please help

[Dunatic]

I have a 15 gig drive that is partitioned in half 7gig & 8gig, I have it set up to dual boot, windows 2000 on the first c: and Win ME on the second D: I want to add another drive but when I add it to my system as a slave drive, my computer won't boot, it tells me I am missing files, any ideas on what the heck is going on?

 

[Dunatic]

anyone.....please?

 

[rommel]

did you disconnect the first hard drive and ...the one you have an OS on already and try to boot from a floppy to at least format and set active a partition on the second drive before setting it to slave and hooking the two together?

 

[Dunatic]

no I didn't know you had to do that.....so I need to disconnect the first drive, boot with a floppy, create a partition on the new drive, and format it?

thanks for the help!

 

[rbV5]

It sounds like you're trying to boot from the new drive, make sure you have drive0 your 2nd boot option in bios,(floppy being #1) you should definately NOT have to disconnect your old drive. Make sure your jumpers on the drives are correct. You can format partition the new drive in win2k no problem.